Security & Privacy

Your financial data never leaves your network

Most AI tools send your data to the cloud. Stride does the opposite — the entire system runs on a self-contained appliance inside your own environment. Privacy isn't a promise in a contract; it's a property of the architecture.

On-premises, end to end

The AI engine, the standards library, the database, and the application all run on a single unit on your network. There is no cloud round-trip and no external dependency to process your books.

Enforced by infrastructure

Your data is kept separate from Stride's general accounting knowledge and is used only to tailor your own system. This separation is enforced at the infrastructure level — not left to policy alone.

Encrypted & isolated

Sensitive stores are encrypted at rest and segregated by function with separate keys. Your trust relationship with your existing GL is unchanged — Stride doesn't expand your data surface.

Audit Trail

An immutable record behind every entry

Every posted entry carries a complete provenance record — and that record can never be quietly overwritten.

The audit trail is append-only. Restatements are recorded as new versions, preserving the full history of how each conclusion was reached. That makes Stride's output defensible under review and gives auditors a clear, traceable line from a transaction to a financial statement.

Captured with every entry

Input transaction & documents✓

Standards cited✓

Supporting rationale✓

Approving reviewer✓

Governance

No model reaches your books unproven

Outputs flow into financial statements, so the bar for deployment is uncompromising.

Rigorous validation gates

Every model version — at launch, after a standards update, or after on-site refinement — must clear a full battery of validation gates before it can reach production. If any threshold isn't met, it doesn't deploy.

No silent updates

When standards change, updates arrive with documentation of exactly what changed and why. You review and approve before anything is deployed to your environment.

Zero-downtime, fully verified

A new model only replaces the current one after it passes validation — and the previous version stays active until it does. Updates are seamless and never untested.

Access & Identity

Fits your existing security model

Stride is simply another secure resource on your network — accessed through the browser and protected by the controls you already run.

Single sign-onIntegrates with Active Directory and SSO/SAML, or local credentials.
Internal-only accessReached at a local hostname on your network — not exposed to the public internet.
Your remote accessWorks through your existing VPN or zero-trust tooling for remote staff.
No model write accessThe AI can propose entries but cannot post to the ledger — people do.

Data boundary

Financial data leaves network?Never

Your data & recordsOn-unit only

Sent to external GLApproved entries only

System tailored to your dataYours alone

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